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Peruvian shamans bless Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, in a poster (r.), and President Barack Obama, in a poster, during a ritual to predict the winner of the US presidential election in Lima, Peru. Shamans predicted Obama's victory. Rodrigo Abd/AP

President Barack Obama is introduced by singer Bruce Springsteen before he speaks in Madison, Wisc., on his last day of campaigning. Larry Downing/Reuters

Participants in costume hold burning torches as they take part in one of a series of processions during Bonfire night celebrations in Lewes, southern England. The processions and bonfire mark the uncovering of Guy Fawkes's 'Gunpowder Plot' to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605 and commemorates the memory of its seventeen Protestant martyrs. Luke MacGregor/Reuters

Red Cross volunteers prepare supplies for residents in Brick, N.J., Sunday. Many residents of hard-hit areas without electricity are getting meals, snacks, and water from Red Cross feeding trucks while they drag the soaked contents out of their homes. Les Stone/American Red Cross/Reuters

A seahorse (Hippocampus Reidi) is displayed during a news conference before the 2012 Taiwan International Aquarium Expo in Taipei. Seahorses raised in Taiwan are selling for as much as $100 each to overseas collectors, according to the aquarium owner. The expo will be held from Nov. 9 to 12. Pichi Chuang/Reuters

US soldiers blow up a roadside bomb set up by Taliban fighters near the town of Walli Was in Paktika province, Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan on Sunday. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler performs in front of the band's old apartment building in Allston, Mass. Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters

A worker adjust flags on the stage at the site of US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's election night rally at the Boston Convention Center in Boston. Rick Wilking/Reuters

A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard next to a display showing four generations of Chinese leaders during an exhibition entitled 'Scientific Development and Splendid Achievements' held ahead of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing. The congress will start on Nov. 8 and the party leadership will begin to hand over power to younger colleagues in a once-a-decade political transition. Andy Wong/AP

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is pictured through a lace cloth as he speaks at a news conference in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. The Dalai Lama said that the next avenue of reform for China should be political. Yuriko Nakao/Reuters

Democratic candidate for the US Senate Elizabeth Warren addresses a crowd as sons of the late US Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Jr., (center r.) and former US Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., (second from r.) look on during a campaign stop in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. Steven Senne/AP

Cast members Tom Hanks and Halle Berry pose on the red carpet for the premiere of 'Cloud Atlas' in Berlin. The movie opens in German cinemas on Nov. 15. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters

A boy in the audience holds a puppet of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a campaign rally at the airport in Sanford, Fla. Brian Snyder/Reuters

Street sign maker Salmon Jackoyo puts the finishing touches on a hat painted with the flags of the USA and Kenya and reading 'Obama for President,' in downtown Kisumu, western Kenya. Many Kenyans consider President Barack Obama, the son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, as one of their own. Ben Curtis/AP

A Syrian baby cries as he lays on a swing attached to a tree at a displaced camp in the Syrian village of Atma near the Turkish border with Syria. Khalil Hamra/AP

An anti-abortion protester interrupts President Barack Obama at a campaign event at the University of Cincinnati Sunday. Police carried the man away in handcuffs. Larry Downing/Reuters

A woman paints dried clay lamps at her workplace as her daughter watches on the outskirts of Jammu, Indian-Administered Kashmir. Earthen lamps for decoration are sold in large numbers during Diwali, the annual Hindu festival of lights. The Diwali festival will be observed this year on November 13. Mukesh Gupta/Reuters

Fishermen pull their nets to retrieve their catch at Karachi's Clifton beach in Pakistan. Athar Hussain/Reuters

Russian servicemen, dressed in historical uniform, take part in a military parade rehearsal in Red Square in Moscow. The parade will be held on November 7 to mark the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through Red Square towards the front lines during World War Two. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

Young Pioneers salute during the weekly flag-raising ceremony at the East Experimental School in Shanghai, China. Created in 1949, the Young Pioneers movement is considered a seedbed for future members of the Chinese Communist Party. Carlos Barria/Reuters

United Arab Emirates' Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and President of Zayed University Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan (r.) sits with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (l.) during a discussion with students at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. Cameron is visiting the Gulf and Middle East on a three-day diplomacy and trade trip this week. WAM/Reuters

An Afghan border policeman feeds a detained suspected Taliban member near Walli Was in Paktika province, Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Vladimir Franz, a university teacher, painter and composer who has tattoos covering 90 percent of his body, attends a rally in Prague, Czech Republic, after he collected more then 50,000 supporting signatures to put him into the official race for the presidency. The first direct presidential election in the Czech Republic takes place in January 2013 to replace outgoing president Vaclav Klaus. David W Cerny/Reuters

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Hardline Islamist insurgents, including the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, now control a second Syrian province after Raqqa, the stronghold of the Islamic State group. But ISIS isn't allied with the Islamists who tookover Idlib.

ByMariam Karouny, ReutersMarch 28, 2015

Islamist groups including Al Qaeda's Nusra Front - but not ISIS - have seized the city of Idlib for the first time in Syria's civil war, fighters and a monitoring group said on Saturday.